For all the disdain the first one gets and the seeming lack of enthusiasm for the sequels, I will not be surprised in the least if Avatar 2 becomes the highest grossing film of all time domestically and worldwide. Cameron knows how to get audiences in seats, even if they later can't explain exactly why they paid to see his movie three times.

But can a renowned director like Cameron be happy of its latest movies just feeding some fads ?Because the first movie got lots and lots of attention, but it dried out progressively to the point not many people seems to fondly remember it (unlike, say, The Dark Knight - for a recent movie that was well received but still is fondly remembered -).

American audiences were mostly into the film as a type of fad, but Chinese audiences is where one saw cosplay and real investment in the world and characters. It's currently #15 in China's list of highest grossing films of all-time, but it's also the oldest film among the Top 50. If The Fate of the Furious can earn $400m in China in 2017, I wouldn't be surprised to see the Avatar sequel earn $600-700m from China alone in 2020.

It's long been confirmed that Stephen Lang's Colonel Quartich would return (despite taking a pair of four-foot arrows in the chest), but talking to Empire in our September issue, Cameron reveals that Quaritch won't be relegated to a supporting role or appear solely in flashbacks. Rather, he will continue to menace Jake, Neytiri and the other Na'vi throughout all five movies as the saga's main antagonist.

The first time I saw Quintron and Miss Pussycat live was back before the Great White tragedy and there used to be a flume attached to the Drum Buddy that would shoot a huge burst of flames straight up from the organ as Quintron took all his clothes off because, yknow, there's fire pouring out of his instrument and it's hot -- five movies' worth of that excitement would be worth whatever Cameron is pissing away here on tree elves

It's well known that Cameron is a difficult director and has done some crazy shit to actors (Ed Harris vowed to never work with him again.) so this is is just par the course. Plus I think Deadpool 2 is still a better choice. I would much rather see Brolin be Cable in multiple sequels than whatever Cameron cooks (Defecates?) up.

“We’ve done a tremendous amount of testing, and we did it successfully, for the first time, just last Tuesday [November 14th]. We actually played an entire scene underwater with our young cast. We’ve got six teenagers and one seven-year-old, and they’re all playing a scene underwater. We’ve been training them for six months now, with how to hold their breath, and they’re all up in the two to four minute range. They’re all perfectly capable of acting underwater, very calmly while holding their breath. We’re not doing any of this on scuba. And we’re getting really good data, beautiful character motion and great facial performance capture. We’ve basically cracked the code.”